Most Technically Challenging Hack (sponsored by Amazon): ‘Buck Saver’

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Once again, we thank you for your warm support and hope to see you again next year.

Posted on 22nd March, 4:46PM.

Thank you for your participation!

The EasilyDo Hackathon has come to a close with a bang! We were blown away by the many of the hacks and ideas! Thank you to all attendees for your warm participation. We will be uploading the list of winners for the hackathon here very soon. Keep a lookout!

Posted on 18th March, 10:35AM.

Submit your hacks!

Register your project at EasilyDo Hackathon's Hackerleague page by 4:00 pm today to be considered for the judging. Qualified entries will be announced shortly after and they will have a chance to present to the judges at 5:00 pm.

Posted on 16th March, 3:27PM.

Preparation Steps for the Hackathon

Here are some steps you can take to prepare yourself for the hackathon later:

About

What is EasilyDo

Unlike traditional productivity and social apps, EasilyDo is a smart, all-in-one assistant app that makes you more productive AND more connected. No to-do lists, no digging, no switching back and forth between apps. EasilyDo finds important everyday tasks and communications from your calendar, email, Facebook, etc. — and offers to take care of them for you right on the spot with one tap of the ‘Do It’ button. It’s that simple, and it’s free!

Dream it. Hack it. Do it! Hackathon

You are warmly invited to our "Dream it. Hack it. Do it! Hackathon" and contribute your ideas to our awesome repertoire of automated tasks. The hackathon entry should follow the paradigm of:

When event happens, offer to do action.

Examples:

When I am not at home, offer to show me map directions to go home.

When I receive an event invitation on Facebook, offer to add it to my Google Calendar.

The sky's the limit. Get your creative juices flowing and hack the next coolest Do It the world has ever seen!

Saturday, March 16th

Prizes

What have we got?

We have an exciting lineup of prizes for you (and the list is ever-increasing)!

Overall Awards

Grand Prize
$3000 cash for the team.

Second Prize
$2000 cash for the team.

Third Prize
$1000 cash for the team.

People's Choice
$250 cash for the team.

Category Awards

Social (Sponsored by Facebook)
$500 cash for the team.

Payments (Sponsored by American Express)
$500 cash for the team.

Enterprise (Sponsored by Yammer)
A Surface Pro for the team.

Commerce (Sponsored by MasterCard)
$500 cash for the team.

Raffle Prizes

A $100 worth of hosting credits for Amazon Web Services will be given to each developer who submits a qualifying entry! Raffles and trivia rounds will be conducted. We will be giving out exciting prizes and more!

Judges

Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog,
Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized his own employer and praised its competitors like Apple and Google. Scoble is the author of Naked Conversations, a book on how blogs are changing the way companies interact with customers, and is currently working on his new project building43 as an employee of Rackspace Hosting.

Mikael Berner

Mikael Berner is the CEO of EasilyDo Inc., a company that re-imagines a simpler and more useful virtual assistant – a proactive assistant. As EasilyDo’s resident “Do Hacker,” Mikael is constantly challenging his team to push the boundaries of innovation in technology and user experience, while aligning EasilyDo’s vision and goals with day-to-day operations. He is a successful entrepreneur, technology industry executive, and one of the leaders driving innovation in theenhanced voice services industry, holding 9 patents in wireless and speech technologies. In 1999, Mikael co-founded BeVocal, which delivered hosted speech-automated customer service for enterprises, and led the company through its acquisition by Nuance Communications in 2007. Following the sale, he served as the SVP of Nuance’s Enterprise Division, where he grew Nuance On Demand to become the world's largest speech automation network. Mikael is an active board member and angel investor of hot startups like Yap, Victrio, Humanoid, Edcaliber, TenMarks Education, Flatter World and Coaster.

David Liddle

David E. Liddle was elected to the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company in 2000.
Since 2000, Dr. Liddle has been a partner at U.S. Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. He co-founded and, between 1992 and 1999, he served as president and CEO, of Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and incubator for new businesses focusing on broadband, consumer devices, interaction design and advanced technologies.
Previously, Dr. Liddle co-founded Metaphor Computer Systems, Inc. in 1982 and served as its president and CEO until 1991. He has also held executive positions at Xerox Corporation and IBM.
Dr. Liddle also serves on the board of directors of Inphi Corporation.

Rohit Dhawan

Lead Product Manager at Facebook, Rohit Dhawan manages the product strategy and development of Facebook Pages. He also leads the cross-functional effort to drive adoption of Pages across businesses, public figures, and organizations. Prior to Facebook, Rohit spent 6 years at Google where his roles included Head of Product Monetization for Asia Pacific, Display Ad Platforms Product Lead, and AdWords API and Developer Product Lead.

Gadi Ben Zvi

Director of Product at Yammer, Inc.

Harshul Sanghi

Managing Partner, AMEX Ventures

Partners

Grand Sponsors

Sponsors

Affliates

Rules

Team Composition
Participants may work by themselves or in a team of up to three.

Fresh Code
You can use APIs, open source libraries and any hardware you like. However, there should not be any production code written before the official start of the hackathon.

Submission Requirements
The development tools, frameworks and application focus are entirely up to the participants but they must be able to integrate into EasilyDo's server (POST data and accept POST data)

Presentation
Each entry will be given 2 minutes to present their finished product. After the 2 minutes are up, you will be asked to stop the demo and the judges may ask you questions.

Judging Criteria
Judges will base their decisions on:

Time Saved: How much time does it save the end user?

Innovation: How innovative is the idea?

Delight Factor: How delightful does the user feel after having it done?

FAQ

How much do I have to pay to participate?
Nothing! This competition is absolutely FREE.

Who can participate?
We welcome coders and non-coders who have an interest in automating people’s lives to participate. You must be physically present at the venue of the hackathon to compete.

Do I need to have used EasilyDo before?
No, though it would help greatly if you have experienced how EasilyDo works and are familiar with the kinds of tasks it automates today.

What do I need to bring along with me?
A laptop computer, charger and an iOS device with EasilyDo installed. EasilyDo is available for download here. We will provide the rest.

Are teams allowed?
Yes, you may work in teams of up to 3 members.

What programming languages do I have to use for the hackathon?
Any language as long as your code can POST to our API endpoints and also be executed on a remote server. That being said, scripting languages are definitely encouraged. We provide example codes and docs for Python, PHP and Java.